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Testing site for the most vulnerable focuses on funeral home workers in the black community

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FOX 29's Shawnette Wilson has the story. PHILADELPHIA - A COVID-19 testing site was set up at the Salem Baptist Church in Rosyln offered by the "Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium." On Thursday, they focused testing on people who work in black-owned funeral homes. "Just want to make sure that we know what's happening in our community so we can take care," said Keith Hodges.

He’s the funeral director at Beckett-Brown & Hodges. He got tested on Thursday. "We have never seen anything like this Covid-19," said Hodges who points out that funeral homes deal with HIV/Aids, MRSA and things like Hepatitis C when handling the deceased.

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